Russian climbers Viktoriia Meshkova and Aleksei Rubtsov won gold in last week’s European Championships and qualify for the Olympics.

European Championships sees women’s world Speed record for Kaplina, double golds for Meshkova in Boulder and Lead and Thompson-Smith and Bosi safely through to Combined.

Molly Thompson-Smith took Bronze yesterday in the nail-biting, Lead final at the European Championships in Moscow.

Legendary Scottish mountaineer, inventor and mountain rescue guru Hamish MacInnes has died aged 90.

Jakob Shubert has added a direct finish to a Daniel Wood’s line to create La Force Tranquille Direct (Font 8c) at Magic Wood.

British outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.), have committed to achieve Net Zero by 2030.

Ramon Marin, has climbed “The Prow project” at Masson Lees at M11.

Southampton’s new 25k square foot indoor climbing centre to include carbon copy of the Tokyo Olympics bouldering wall.

Hot news from France is that Julia Chanourdie made the third ascent of Eagle-4 (F9b) at St Leger.

Nearly twelve months after her previous accident, Emily Harrington has returned to El Cap and climbed Golden Gate (5.13) in 21:13hrs.

As of today England enters its second lockdown of the year.

For the first time ever the Kendal Mountain Festival will be an on-line event for 2020.